excited to welcome all dancers and parents to the Long Beach Poly 2014-2015 Color Guard season. Our goal this season is to provide an opportunity for students to participate in representing their school. The Color Guard is a group that teaches teamwork and performance skills‚ builds confidence and self-esteem. You will gain experiences in performing in front of many people and lifelong friendships. During this season‚ The Color Guard will perform with the marching band at all home football games; pre-game
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The first movie‚ “The Color Purple”‚ is based on the novel written by Alice Walker that carries the same name. The movie presents the hardship and domestic violence of African-American women at the beginning of the 20th century when racism‚ injustice‚ oppression‚ and African-American’ rights were still noticed in America at that time. Its main character is a young African-American girl‚ Celie‚ who is repeatedly sexually molested by her stepfather who later is forced to marry Albert‚ a widower with
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Strode In Peggy McIntosh’s article “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible backpack” we see detailed examples of how white people are extremely privileged in ways that people of other races may never understand. Even though sometimes we do not realize this is happening it has been seen to be true in many things throughout history and in the world today. One of the parts of this article that caught my eye and made me think a bit was the list of 26 white privileges that McIntosh wrote about in
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Drawing the Color Line Drawing the Color Line by Howard Zinn the second chapter from A People’s history of the United States. The authors writes this chapter to explain racism and how it started‚ “a continent were we can trace the coming of the first whites and the first blacks-might supply at least a few clues” he wants to use history to try to explain why it started. In this chapter Howard Zinn gives us an insight on Slavery and racism in the early 17th century of America. This chapter does
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Racism dates back thousands and thousands of years back to the caveman times. In the short story “Desiree’s Baby”‚ Kate Chopin shows how discrimination by skin color can affect people. Desiree was abandoned and raised by Madame Valmonde. Armand‚ the father of the baby‚ was a member of the most notable families in Louisiana. He falls in love with Desiree and marries her. After they have a baby‚ their relationship quickly corrodes. A few months later‚ Armand realizes the baby’s skin has a darker tint
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The Effects of Changing Wavelength on Raphanus Sativus Abstract: Light from the Sun is a full spectrum of different wavelengths of light. Scientists refer to this light as “white light”. When the wavelength of visible light changes‚ so does the color seen by the eye. The shortest wavelengths visible to the human eye are violet (400 nanometers). The longest wavelengths visible the human eye are red (700 nanometers). Each plant is affected differently by the changing wavelengths of light. The purpose
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The Color Purple In the novel “The Color purple” the dynamic characters are Albert‚ and Celie. Albert is one of the character that married Celie and always beat her. His way of treating people change when Celie left the house with Shug Avery. He started to treat people better than he use to and when Celie come back from her tripe he was really nice to her and treat her with kindness. Celie is the main character that was rape by her step-father at a young age‚ she was separated from her younger
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In “The Color Purple”‚ Shug Avery has a positive impact on Celie. This empowers Celie to become independent and confident. The author describes the positive impacts when Shug meets Celie during her illness and develops a strong friendship with her. Shug is an independent and strong woman. These are two qualities Celie does not posses. However‚ when Shug is introduced in the novel‚ she influences Celie to become a more independent woman. Shug helps Celie with her mental problems‚ which has been an
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In movies colour scenes can be created by using a coloured filter over white light source or over a camera lens. The entire screen turns to the desired colour if the coloured filter is placed over the camera lens. The viewer makes certain assumptions on how the colour are perceived or how they relate to the scene. Different colours have different meanings to the scenes‚ e.g. the colour red may mean anger‚ passion‚ rage‚ desire‚ excitement‚ energy‚ speed‚ strength‚ power‚ heat‚ love‚ aggression‚ danger
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Literary Analysis Outline Title: Violence is Not the Remedy Introduction In Alice Walker’s novel The Color Purple she uses violence to illustrate the main character Celie’s transition from being a weak character to a strong one. In the beginning of the novel Celie is abused physically and psychologically. Her father rapes and beats his children. Her father took her out of school at a very young age‚ due to pregnancy‚ which is why Celie has very poor english skills and is ignorant to the world
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